Operation Market-Garden 1944 3
Operation Market-Garden 1944 3 Field Marshal Montgomery's plan to get Second British Army behind the fortifications of the German Siegfried Line in 1944 led to the hugely ambitious Operation…
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Operation Market-Garden 1944 3
Field Marshal Montgomery's plan to get Second British Army behind the fortifications of the German Siegfried Line in 1944 led to the hugely ambitious Operation Market-Garden. Once XXX Corps had reached this bridge it would then make for the German industrial area of the Ruhr. Part of this plan called for a rapid advance from Belgium through Holland up to and across the lower Rhine by the British XXX Corps along a single road already dominated by airborne troops.Their objective along this road was the bridge at Arnhem, the target of British and Polish airborne troops.
Yet it turned out to be a The operation was bold in outlook, but risky in concept.Using specially commissioned artwork and detailed analysis, Ken Ford completes his trilogy on Operation Market-Garden by examining this attack which, if successful, could have shortened the war in the west considerably.